I didn't even bother putting a quote in here, because there are too many.

Steve Job gets it. He understands the risks, and has a good grasp on the reality of how music and technology affect each other, and of the business issues at hand.

Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview

] Like the babbling psychics who predict future crimes in
] Minority Report, Dick was a precog. Lurking within his
] amphetamine-fueled fictions are truths that have only to
] be found and decoded. In a 1978 essay he wrote: "We live
] in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured
] by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by
] religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing,
] What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with
] pseudorealities manufactured by very sophisticated people
] using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not
] distrust their motives. I distrust their power. It is an
] astonishing power: that of creating whole universes,
] universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same
] thing."

An interesting article about the proliferation of Dickian tales in modern society. I'm amazed at how he was so right (mood organ anyone?) and other sci-fi greats such as Clark and Bradbury were so wrong (ahem... 2010...). Proof positive that you can see the future. Which makes me feel much better in some ways and much worse in others.

The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick

"In 1946, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, in one of cinema's oddest collaborations, teamed up on a short film called Destino. But Disney's studio ran into financial trouble and put the unfinished film on the shelf.

Now, 57 years later, a team of Disney animators has finished what Dalí started. The six-minute film, spearheaded by Walt's nephew Roy E. Disney and producer Baker Bloodworth (Dinosaur), premiered at the Annecy Animation Festival in June and is currently touring festivals worldwide. Recent stops include the Telluride, Montreal and Venice festivals, along with the Melbourne International Film Festival, where it won the grand prize for best short film. "

Disney Animates Dalí's Flick

] Several 17th-century clay pipes found at the site of
] William Shakespeare's home were used to smoke marijuana,
] a South African anthropologist says. Although he has no
] proof that the Bard was the guy who smoked the pipes, he
] surmises that some of Shakespeare's sonnets and plays
] also lend credence to the possibility that the writer
] smoked marijuana for inspiration.

] Thackeray said his "hobby" developed after he played
] the part of the ghost in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in
] 1998. That renewed his interest in Shakespeare's work.
] He noticed a reference in Sonnet No. 76 to "invention
] in a noted weed." "Weed" is a slang term for marijuana,
] and "invention" can refer to writing. The same sonnet
] refers to "compounds strange," a known reference to
] drugs. In Sonnet 27, Shakespeare wrote about "a journey
] in my head." Sonnet No. 118 speaks of "to make our
] appetite more keen, with eager compounds we our palate
] urge." Perhaps a reference to marijuana as an appetite
] stimulant, Thackeray wonders.

] Intrigued, Thackeray asked the Shakespeare Birthplace
] Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon to allow South African
] researchers with state-of-the-art equipment to analyze
] 24 pipe fragments. Marijuana degrades over time, but
] eight of the fragments showed signs suggestive of
] marijuana, he said. Two also showed evidence of cocaine.

The pot head thing wouldn't shock me in the least.. However, freebasing cocaine dosen't fit my image of Shakespeare.

Anthropologist says Shakespeare might have smoked marijuana

flynn23 wrote:
] crankymessiah wrote:
] ] Bob Log III, the one man blues machine's latest video. This
] ] guy is hilarious and I highly recommend you go see him live
] if
] ] you ever get the chance.
] ]
] ] WARNING: Contains nudity.
]
] I have seen the future, and it is Bob Log III.

Apparently we're the only two with enough vision to recognize genius.

RE: Bob Log III :: Official Website :: Videos

Welcome to the exhibition of rediscovered works by the mid 20th century illustrator A.C. Radebaugh.

A very cool exhibit, soon to open in Philadelphia, displaying lots of futuristic graphic artwork from the 1950s. Flying cars, urban airships docked at skyscrapers, and more. This stuff is almost propagandist in its technological optimism.

Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised

Larry G. wrote:
] Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of Peter Cigéhn's
] Top Sample Lists, which catalogue all of those sound samples
] you hear in your favorite
] techno/industrial/dance/electronica/whatever music. It began
] its life on the Net as an e-newsletter, but is now maintained
] on the Web. To this day, the most popular sources for samples
] are still Blade Runner, NASA broadcasts, and Star
] Trek.

I remember when this was a vehicle to promote your shitty industrial band to the world... long before mp3.com.

RE: The Top Sample Lists

By Leander Kahney

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Now, a university student from Israel has written a piece of software that goes a step further. Ofer Springer has created a "virtual gramophone" that plays LPs using an ordinary flatbed scanner.

Springer's Digital Needle uses a high-resolution image of an LP captured by a flatbed scanner. (Because 12-inch LPs are bigger than the image glass on most scanners, Springer first takes four pictures and stitches them together into a single image.)

Then, like a needle on a record player, his software follows the image of the groove as it spirals around the record, generating sounds based on the wavelike patterns of the groove.

The results are barely recognizable as the original music, but strangely affecting. Springer has posted samples on the project's Web page.

Wired News: Press 'Scan' to Play Old Albums?

There are some REALLY nice computer art peices on this site. I really enjoyed just surfing through it. Check it out.

CHAPTER THREE digital creations

w1ld wrote:
] ] Two members of the classic rock band The Doors are
] ] reconstituting the group, but a former band mate is
] ] challenging their legal right to use the name The Doors.
] ] As keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robbie Krieger
] ] prepare for a sold-out show Friday at the Universal
] ] Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, drummer John Densmore has
] ] filed suit over their use of the band's name and logo.
] ] The suit alleges breach of contract, unfair competition
] ] and trademark violation -- and seeks injunctive relief
] ] and monetary damages.
] ] The suit also names singer Ian Astbury and drummer
] ] Stewart Copeland as defendants.
] ] Astbury, formerly of the British band The Cult, and
] ] Copeland, formerly of The Police, have joined Manzarek
] ] and Krieger in a new incarnation of the band -- formerly
] ] fronted by Jim Morrison -- that turned out such rock
] ] classics as "Light My Fire," "Riders on the Storm" and
] ] "L.A. Woman."

Wha? Stewart Copeland???

Jesus... what's it gonna take to get the Police to do one last tour? C'MON! FOR THE FANS DAMMIT!!!

RE: When are The Doors not The Doors?